facility of speech
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Ultimately, it seeks to explain the ages-old mystery of precisely how and why man developed the unique facility of speech as an expression of thought, which, more than any other activity, separates him from animals.
From Time Magazine Archive
Yes, there was something more than attractive features and a pleasant facility of speech.
From The Emancipated by Gissing, George
Madison had the brain of a statesman, energy and persistence in crises, immense industry, facility of speech, a broad contempt for the pretensions and mean bickerings of the States, and a fairly national outlook.
From The Conqueror by Atherton, Gertrude Franklin Horn
Foreign Languages In the Latin countries, grace and facility of speech is an object of lifelong cultivation—and no one is considered an educated person who can not speak several languages well.
From Etiquette by Post, Emily
If a man make his facility of speech an excuse for the neglect of all study, then doubtless this will be the result.
From Hints on Extemporaneous Preaching by Ware, Henry
